Engineer 2

About the role

Pike Engineering is seeking a Civil-Structural Engineer to join our Transmission Substation engineering and design team. This role includes both direct billable client work and project management support.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise and support to Transmission Substation engineering and design teams.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve engineering, technical, and design problems.
• Plan, organize, estimate, schedule, and monitor work activities.
• Create and update civil-structural drawing packages, including foundations, structural steel, bus and cable.
• Create and manage project scopes, estimates, budgets, and schedules for substation projects.
• Analyze new and existing steel (or wood) structures using modeling software.
• Design and procure transformer oil containment systems.
• Oversee the work of junior staff and mentor designers/drafters.
• Collaborate with senior civil engineers to create best practices, quality assurance, and processes and procedures.
• Communicate with customer’s internal engineers and technical personnel on a day-to-day basis.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with customers.
• Monitor deliverables, schedules, and present solutions to the client.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university in Civil Engineering.
• A required Engineering Degree awarded from a College of University that is accredited by ABET.
• Experience as a Civil/Structural Engineer within the electrical industry in the field of power delivery (2-4 years).
• Engineer in Training (EIT) certification strongly preferred.
• Actively working towards obtaining Professional Engineering (PE) license with the ability to be licensed within two years.

Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as procedure manuals, operational procedures, etc.
• Effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling, and monitoring of work activities.
• Thorough, timely, and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations, and sketches.
• Continuous improvement of job-related engineering, technical, and professional knowledge, skills, process development, and performance.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Understanding of practical research for engineering and design issues, evaluating alternatives, making sound recommendations, and preparing and presenting recommendations.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work alone or with limited supervision as well as be a productive member of a team.
• Ability to deal with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Understanding of advanced electrical engineering concepts as they impact civil-structural designs.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.

Complexity of Work

The complexity of work is established procedures not available. Major decision making is involved.

Relationship Outside Work Group

Influences decisions of moderate nature requiring high degree of tact. Supervisory responsibilities: No direct reports, but mentors and provides leadership to junior engineers and those engineers outside the discipline.

On-the-job training

As needed for the job and employee development.

Physical Demands

• Stand: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Walk: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Sit: 2/3 and more (Regularly)
• Talk or Hear: 2/3 and more (Regularly)
• Use Hands to Feel, Handle or finger tools or controls: 1/3 to 2/3 (Frequently)
• Climb or balance: None
• Stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl: None
• Reach with Hands and Arms: 1/3 to 2/3 (Frequently)
• Taste or Smell: None
• Do not lift or exert force to lift and carry: Up to 10 Pounds Up to 1/3
• Do not lift or exert force to lift and carry: Up to 25 Pounds Up to 1/3
• Do not lift or exert force to lift and carry: Up to 50 Pounds None
• Do not lift or exert force to lift and carry: Up to 100 Pounds None
• Do not lift or exert force to lift and carry: More than 100 Pounds None
• Do not perform any special vision requirements: Peripheral Vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)
• Work near moving mechanical parts: None
• Work in high, precarious places: None
• Work with fumes or airborne particles: None
• Work with toxic or caustic chemicals: None
• Outdoor weather conditions: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Extreme cold (non-weather): Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Extreme heat (non-weather): Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Risk of electrical shock: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Risk of radiation: None
• Vibration: None
• While performing this job, the noise level in the work environment is: Moderate Noise (Examples: business office with typewriters, and or computer printer, light traffic)

Work Environment

• Wet, humid conditions (non-weather): None
• Work near moving mechanical parts: None
• Work in high, precarious places: None
• Work with fumes or airborne particles: None
• Work with toxic or caustic chemicals: None
• Outdoor weather conditions: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Extreme cold (non-weather): Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Extreme heat (non-weather): Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Risk of electrical shock: Up to 1/3 (Occasionally)
• Risk of radiation: None
• Vibration: None
• While performing this job, the noise level in the work environment is: Moderate Noise (Examples: business office with typewriters, and or computer printer, light traffic)

About Us

United Grid Solutions is a team of planners and strategic thinkers dedicated to providing critical infrastructure solutions that improve lives around the world. Beginning with our role in connecting the first power plants to the earliest power grids, we have a longstanding history of delivering innovative and transformative solutions to meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Our team members have the opportunity to grow and advance while solving unique and complex challenges for the evolving infrastructure industry.

About The Team

Pike Engineering employees play critical roles in ensuring that essential services like electric power, gas, telephone and wireless communications are up and running when people and businesses need them. We offer engineering opportunities in transmission and distribution, substations, smart meter technologies, renewable energy, telecommunications, storm damage assessment and more.